'Bout time.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee today asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate three Republican-leaning nonprofits who are spending millions on the 2012 campaigns.
The groups are Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Karl Rove; Americans for Prosperity, which is linked to David and Charles Koch; and 60-Plus Association, which has ties to Crossroads political director Carl Forti. The latter also has indirect ties to the Kochs: In 2010, 60-Plus Association received $9 million from a separate nonprofit run by a Republican political consultant who has shared the podium at Koch-sponsored conferences for donors with AFP President Tim Phillips.
“These groups’ major purpose is to influence elections,” said the complaint filed by DSCC Executive Director Guy Cecil. “These organizations are actually claiming that they are no more political than a church, a synagogue, or even the American Cancer Society. It is patently absurd and we certainly expect that the FEC would take action.”
Too bad the FEC won't do anything. As
Bloomberg points out,
The FEC, which is deadlocked, 3-3, between Democratic and Republican commissioners, has not taken any action against these nonprofits.
